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Jonathan To Buhari: Implement 2014 Confab Recommendations by hadex90(m): 7:51am On Feb 03, 2017 |
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has
urged President Muhammad Buhari to
implement recommendations of the 2014
National Conference on independent
Religious Equity Commission.
Jonathan said establishment of the
commission will help apprehend
perpetrators of ethnic and religious
violence.
He also added that existence of the
commission would end impunity as well as
religious tension across the country.
Jonathan said this when he met with a
United States of America Congress Sub
Committee on Threats of Religious
Intolerance in Nigeria and the Niger Delta
Question, recently.
The former president also discussed
challenges facing Christians in Nigeria and
the Niger Delta issue.
Jonathan, who was invited by the sub
committee and spoke in his capacity as
Chairman of the Goodluck Jonathan
Foundation, said implementation of the
“resolutions of the 2014 national
conference is the panacea that will prevent
ethnic and religious tensions that lead to
crises, such as the recent Southern
Kaduna killings.”
In a statement by his spokesman,
Ikechukwu Eze, Jonathan also said he fully
aligned with the views of the 2014 National
Conference which called for true and fiscal
federalism as the way out of agitations in
the region and in other parts of Nigeria.
The former president also identified
impunity as a factor that contributes to the
reoccurrence of such violence, and noted
that, if those behind previous violence were
not prosecuted, then, individuals and
groups of like minds would be emboldened
to repeat the same act.
He also said interventionist agencies like
the Niger Delta Development Commission
(NDDC) tend not to be effective due to
over-politicisation.
The former president opined that the
development of a state like Akwa-Ibom has
proved that what the region needed was
resource control and not interventionist
agencies.
Dr. Jonathan also talked about his efforts
to end impunity, specifically citing the case
of Kabiru Sokoto, the mastermind of the
Christmas Day bombing of Saint Theresa’s
Catholic Church in Madalla, in Niger State.
Sokoto was subsequently arrested,
prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned by
Jonathan’s administration and was the first
successful prosecution of a terrorist attack
on a place of worship in Nigeria’s history.
He said: “That promise was fulfilled on
December 20, 2013 when Kabiru Umar,
also known as Kabiru Sokoto, was
sentenced to life imprisonment after my
administration investigated that crime,
identified him as the mastermind, arrested
him and diligently prosecuted him and
some of his associates.”
The former president also noted that his
administration’s prosecution of the
perpetrators of the deadly bombing of an
office of the Independent National Electoral
Commission also in Madalla on April 8,
2011 was the first successful prosecution
of terrorists in Nigeria.
The meeting was attended by Chairman of
the U.S. House Sub-Committee on Africa,
Global Health, Global Human Rights and
International Organisations, Congressman
Christopher H Smith and other influential
staff of the committee. sunnewsonline 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Jonathan To Buhari: Implement 2014 Confab Recommendations by Curvinus(m): 8:12am On Feb 03, 2017 |
The nomads and their army of larckeys won't like this. |
Re: Jonathan To Buhari: Implement 2014 Confab Recommendations by SpecialAdviser(m): 8:16am On Feb 03, 2017 |
Don't mind the stubborn dullard. I have always held that the presidency should look into the confab report and see what they can do about it. APC made a critical mistake in bringing a stubborn man like Buhari into office. How on earth Tinubu lost his voice on restructuring beats my imagination. Is it that it is not loud to the deaf ear that Nigeria cannot progress under current political arrangement? I wondered how on earth any right thinking southerner with all his education will buy into the idea of CHANGE that APC brought. These politicians are only interested on their individual gains. And for Jonathan to have waited for the dying minutes to hold a CONFAB shows how selfish these politicians can be. The south should know that Nigeria cannot progress without restructuring. OR else we break up. The north is shying away from this because their parasitic life will not allow them accept it. You come online to defend Buhari because you lack a mental strength to read about your history. It is really a shame. |
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